Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 metre breaststroke

Men's 50 metre breaststroke at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	July 26, 2011 (heats and semifinals) July 27, 2011 (final)
Competitors	51 from 48 nations
Winning time	27.01
Medalists
Felipe França Silva    Brazil   Fabio Scozzoli    Italy   Cameron van der Burgh    South Africa
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The men's 50 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 26 with the heats and the semifinals and July 27 with the final.

Records[]

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record Championship record	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	26.67	Rome	July 29, 2009

Results[]

Heats[]

51 swimmers participated in 7 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	4	Felipe França Silva	Brazil	27.19	Q
2	5	3	Matjaž Markič	Slovenia	27.36	Q
3	7	5	Damir Dugonjič	Slovenia	27.47	Q
4	7	6	Mark Gangloff	United States	27.49	Q
5	6	6	Alexander Dale Oen	Norway	27.51	Q, NR
6	6	2	Glenn Snyders	New Zealand	27.52	Q, NR
7	7	4	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	27.58	Q
8	5	4	Hendrik Feldwehr	Germany	27.67	Q
9	6	3	Dragos Agache	Romania	27.75	Q
10	6	5	Fabio Scozzoli	Italy	27.84	Q
10	7	7		Russia	27.84	Q
12	4	6		Czech Republic	27.86	Q
13	5	5	Brenton Rickard	Australia	27.89	Q
14	6	7	Čaba Silađi	Serbia	27.93	Q
15	7	3	Lennart Stekelenburg	Netherlands	27.95	Q
16	7	8	Vladislav Polyakov	Kazakhstan	28.00	Q
17	5	2	Ryo Tateishi	Japan	28.01
18	5	6	Barry Murphy	Ireland	28.13
19	4	4		China	28.14
20	6	1	Giedrius Titenis	Lithuania	28.14
21	4	7	Edgar Crespo	Panama	28.15
22	5	1	Mohammad Alirezaei	Iran	28.18
23	7	2		Canada	28.19
24	4	1	Rodion Davelaar	Netherlands Antilles	28.21
25	3	4	Amini Fonua	Tonga	28.23
26	4	8	Nabil Kebbab	Algeria	28.25	NR
27	6	8	Malick Fall	Senegal	28.33
28	4	5	Dawid Szulich	Poland	28.34
29	4	3	Filipp Provorkov	Estonia	28.39
30	4	2		Sweden	28.42
31	7	1	Valerii Dymo	Ukraine	28.44
32	5	8		Finland	28.58
33	3	5	Laurent Carnol	Luxembourg	28.63	NR
34	5	7	Indra Gunawan	Indonesia	28.81
35	3	6	Tomas Klobucnik	Slovakia	28.95
36	3	7	Julian Fletcher	Bermuda	29.11
37	3	3		Chile	29.85
38	2	4	Mubarak Al-Besher	United Arab Emirates	30.02
39	3	1		Malta	30.47
40	3	2		Bangladesh	30.88
41	2	7		Mali	32.03
42	2	2	Hemthon Ponloeu	Cambodia	33.48
43	2	1		Cameroon	34.34
44	2	6	Ganzi Mugula	Uganda	34.38
45	2	3		Tajikistan	37.56
46	3	8		Djibouti	37.60
47	1	3		Togo	41.43
48	1	4		Niger	41.86
49	2	5		Djibouti	43.37
50	2	8		Niger	47.58
	1	5		Guinea	DSQ

Semifinals[]

The semifinals were held at 18:19.^[2]

Semifinal 1[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Fabio Scozzoli	Italy	27.37	Q
2	6	Hendrik Feldwehr	Germany	27.53	Q
3	5	Mark Gangloff	United States	27.57	Q
4	3	Glenn Snyders	New Zealand	27.64
5	4	Matjaž Markič	Slovenia	27.71
6	8	Vlad Polyakov	Kazakhstan	27.81
7	7		Czech Republic	27.87
8	1	Čaba Silađi	Serbia	27.89

Semifinal 2[]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	26.90	Q
2	4	Felipe França Silva	Brazil	26.95	Q
3	3	Alexander Dale Oen	Norway	27.33	Q, NR
4	5	Damir Dugonjič	Slovenia	27.51	Q
4	8	Lennart Stekelenburg	Netherlands	27.51	Q
6	2	Dragos Agache	Romania	27.71
7	7		Russia	27.73
8	1	Brenton Rickard	Australia	27.80

Final[]

The final was held at 19:37.^[3] Video replay shows Felipe França Silva using an illegal dolphin kick at the finish; however the official on deck did not see it and so the results stand.^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Felipe França Silva	Brazil	27.01
	6	Fabio Scozzoli	Italy	27.17	NR
	4	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	27.19
4	1	Hendrik Feldwehr	Germany	27.41
5	3	Alexander Dale Oen	Norway	27.43
6	8	Mark Gangloff	United States	27.58
7	7	Lennart Stekelenburg	Netherlands	27.65
8	2	Damir Dugonjič	Slovenia	28.00

References[]

External links[]

• 2011 World Aquatics Championships: Men's 50 metre breaststroke start list, from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.